Word: em
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rarefied company of TV entertainers like Johnny Carson ($3 million a year). That narrowing of the money gap between TV's news stars and its entertainment stars is perhaps only fitting. News is suddenly the hot act on TV. Information programs are beginning to rival sitcoms, shoot-'em-ups and other fictive fare for viewers and advertising dollars. The top-rated show on television this season is CBS's 60 Minutes: the investigatory escapades of Rather and fellow Correspondents Wallace, Safer and Harry Reasoner are seen by some 40 million Americans each Sunday evening. A celebrity-studded version...
...Morningside Heights, along the glistening, lamplit paths where Pacino cruises for the last time. They stare at each other, Pacino now affecting an effeminate walk. They throw down their burning fags in a mutual invitation to duel. Pacino steps out of his pants, urging on the killer ("get 'em down, I want to see the world") who whips out his blade. Pacino wounds him with his own knife and collapses against a wall, naked...
...They were a good team," said Crimson forward Kim Belshe. "There weren't too many high points in this game. I guess we just didn't kick it to 'em," she added. Actually, Belshe was one of the few Harvard high points of the night...
...islands glitter with bright, swooping birds, whose local names are often as colorful as their plumage: the sugarbird or bananaquit; eight varieties of tern, one known as kill-'em-Polly; five endemic warblers, one called Betsey-kick-up or Mary-shake-well; the common stilt or crackpot soldier; the mangrove cuckoo or 4 o'clock bird; the magnificent frigate, and the brown pelican, with its beak holding more than its belican...
Statia: The Past Is Future. A little old lady answered the shrilling phone at 3 a.m. "Your oil shipment will be a day late," said the American-accented voice at the other end. "That's all right, mon," allowed the lady. "You'll tell 'em at the dock?" the American continued. "No trouble, mon." The conversation became progressively more surreal until the Statian woman inquired: "Where you callin' from, mon?" "Saudi Arabia. Where are you, for Pete's sake?" "St. Eustatius, mon." "St. What...